By Making It on 31 March, 2010
Developing countries are witnessing a substantial growth in their greenhouse gas emissions, mostly due to rapid industrialization …
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged clean development, development, entrepreneurship, financing development, Issue 2, policy, renewable energy
By Making It on 30 March, 2010
Solar power has a unique opportunity in undeveloped and developing regions, particularly those with over-burdened and/or limited electricity grids.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged clean development, development, entrepreneurship, financing development, Issue 2, policy, renewable energy, solar, solar nations, solar power
By Making It on 30 March, 2010
Key to Grameen Shakti’s success was the deliberate drive to involve women in the take-up of renewable energy …
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Bangladesh, Barua, development, entrepreneurship, financing development, Grameen Shakti, Issue 2, policy, renewable energy, solar, solar nations, solar power
By Making It on 30 March, 2010
Helge Lund, President and CEO of Statoil, illustrates the growing importance of new carbon capture and storage technologies.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged carbon, carbon capture, CCS, change, climate, co2, development, emissions, energy, European Carbon Dioxide Test Centre at Mongstad, financing development, Helge Lund, industry, international energy agency, Issue 2, policy, Statoil, storage
By Making It on 30 March, 2010
The private sector is a major driver of economic growth, and a thriving business environment is a pre-condition for the development of a dynamic private sector …
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Austria, Austrian Development Bank, Bhutan, climate change, development, ECOWAS, energy efficiency, financing development, hydropower, interview, Issue 2, Macedonia, policy, renewable energy, Spindelegger, UNDP, UNIDO, Vienna
By Making It on 30 March, 2010
According to Kandeh K. Yumkella and Leena Srivastava, energy access is the ‘missing’ MDG that will end the poverty trap.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, Ban Ki-moon, business, climate, climate change, demand-side policies, development, development programme, Director-General, financing, GHG mitigation, Global, IEA, India, Industrial Development Organization, International, international energy agency, IPCC, Issue 2, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, NGO, policy, poverty reduction, private sector, renewable energy, Srivastava, TERI, UN, UNDP, UNIDO, United Nations, Yumkella
By Making It on 29 March, 2010
Nobuo Tanaka looks at the technologies for reducing industrial CO2 emissions and the policies that are needed to ensure their widespread use.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged clean development, co2, development, entrepreneurship, financing development, industrial emissions, industrial revolution, industry, international energy agency, Issue 2, policy, renewable energy, technology, transition
By Making It on 29 March, 2010
Today’s grassroots approach to poverty reduction shouldn’t be equated simply with boot-strap operations or self-help schemes. The bottom-up policies and institutions that are now being experimented with in Africa and other poor regions have highly innovative elements.
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, brain drain, Brazil, demand-side policies, development, financing, grassroots, institution, Issue 2, OPEC, policy, poverty reduction, renewable energy
By Making It on 28 March, 2010
In 2004, Bianca Jagger received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, for her “long-standing commitment and dedicated campaigning over a wide range of issues of human rights, social justice, and environmental protection”. She is the founder and chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation.
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The experience of participating at the Copenhagen [...]
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged 2009, action, BASIC Group, Bianca Jagger, China, climate, climate change, climate treaty, co2 emissions, Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, COP15, Copenhagen, deforestation, development, Issue 2, Norway, policy, pollution, REDD, United Nations, United States, Vapour money
By Making It on 26 March, 2010
Stephen Karekezi and John Kimani – AFREPREN/FWD (Energy, Environment, and Development Network for Africa), a non-governmental organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Recent high oil and coal prices, as well as an intensified debate about climate change, have led many analysts to suggest that modern bioenergy development could mitigate the negative impacts of unstable fossil fuel [...]
Posted in All Posts, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, Bioenergy, biofuel, climate change, development, emissions, fuel, greenhouse gas, Issue 2, policy, sub-Saharan